interoception

Definitions of interoception

1. noun

   sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body
   types:

   proprioception

   the ability to sense the position and location and orientation and movement of the body and its parts

   somaesthesia, somaesthesis, somataesthesis, somatesthesia, somatic sense, somatic sensory system, somatosensory system, somesthesia, somesthesis

   the faculty of bodily perception; sensory systems associated with the body; includes skin senses and proprioception and the internal organs

   kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinesthesis, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement

   the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body

   kinanesthesia

   inability to sense movement

   equilibrium, labyrinthine sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium, vestibular sense

   a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head

   skin perceptiveness, tactility, tactual sensation, touch perception

   the faculty of perceiving (via the skin) pressure or heat or pain

   feeling of movement, kinaesthesia, kinesthesia

   the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc

   type of:

   sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity

   (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation